| Stop & target | Chart Trader | ATM Risk Reward |
|---|---|---|
| Stop and target after the fill NinjaTrader’s own lines, as always | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stop and target before the fill with standard ATMs, drawn the moment the entry is resting | ✓ | |
| Every target of a multi-target ATM each its own line and tag before the fill | ✓ | |
| Price markers on the axis before the fill like NinjaTrader’s own, up to four levels per side | ✓ | |
| Drag the stop or target before the fill with standard ATMs the real values move; after the fill NinjaTrader does it too | ✓ | |
| Ticks, dollars, points and R on every line before the fill and after it | ✓ | |
| Stop and target stay put when you move the entry on by default; only the dollars, ticks and R on their tags change | ✓ | |
| All five ATM parameter types ticks, pips, percent, currency and price, read NinjaTrader’s way | ✓ | ✓ |
| After the fill | ||
| Stat tags beside NinjaTrader’s lines dollars, points and R from your actual fill price | ✓ | |
| Dollars and R while you drag NinjaTrader’s lines for the price under your mouse, from your real fill | ✓ | |
| Entry box with the trade clock time in trade and entry time | ✓ | |
| Closed-trade table result, R, drawdown, best, duration; fades when you say | ✓ | |
| Yours to set | ||
| Line colors and styles from your Chart Trader settings style them once, in NinjaTrader | ✓ | ✓ |
| Every box its own colors, opacity and gap gap for the stop, target and entry boxes; colors and opacity for the closed-trade table too | ✓ | |
In short: NinjaTrader 8 with Chart Trader open or hidden and an ATM strategy on your entries. That is all ATM Risk Reward needs.
Orders placed without an ATM strategy are not shown, by design. On a chart without Chart Trader it deliberately does nothing. It never places, cancels or fires an entry order; dragging a line changes a real order at your broker, so confirm the bracket in Chart Trader before the fill.
Ticks, pips, percent, currency or price, read NinjaTrader’s way.
Each stop and target has its own line and tag, showing exactly what you want it to show.
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Four moments in a trade where seeing the stop loss and target early matters. None of them is a signal; the entries, the stops and the discipline are still yours.
Your limit is resting and the market shifts. Drag the stop under the new swing, or the target to the level that matters, before the fill, instead of after.
The target line says +2.0R and the stop says −$62.50 for the order before you commit. If the number is wrong for the trade, you see it while it is still free to fix.
A Price-mode template holding a distance instead of a price would put your stop at price 10.00 and leave a filled position naked. ATM Risk Reward draws no line and tells you, before the fill.
The closed-trade table shows the result in dollars and R, the drawdown you sat through and the best price you saw, so the numbers are still on screen when you write it up.
New to ATM strategies? Read the ATM strategy guide →
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Download the zip after checkout, then in NinjaTrader 8 go to Tools → Import → NinjaScript Add-On and pick the file. Add ATM Risk Reward to a chart that has Chart Trader open, place an ATM entry, and the lines are there — most traders are done in under a minute. The step-by-step guide covers every message NinjaTrader can show and the update rule.
Those are exactly the orders it draws. Your ATM strategy creates a stop loss and a profit target behind the entry — NinjaTrader’s own names for what most traders call the stop and the take profit — and ATM Risk Reward puts both on the chart as order lines while the entry is still pending, with the dollars, ticks, points and R on each line. Drag either one and the real order moves. It never creates the orders itself: your ATM template and Chart Trader stay in charge. If ATM strategies are new to you, our guide to NinjaTrader risk reward tools explains where the stop loss and profit target actually come from.
It never places, cancels or fires an entry order; your workflow stays native Chart Trader. When you drag a line, ATM Risk Reward writes the new stop or target into your live ATM strategy — that is a real change to a real order at your broker, which is the whole point. When you move a pending entry, it changes the bracket’s distances after NinjaTrader confirms the move, so the stop and target stay at their prices; switch off Keep stop and target when entry moves for NinjaTrader’s normal behavior. Confirm the bracket in Chart Trader before the entry fills; Chart Trader is always the source of truth.
ATM Risk Reward reads your account and your orders through the Chart Trader panel on that chart — it never picks an account on its own. On a chart without Chart Trader it deliberately does nothing and says so in the Output window; open Chart Trader (the collapsed view is enough) and it starts by itself. If the panel is missing or greyed out, our Chart Trader guide covers how to enable it and what to check.
All five, each read the way NinjaTrader defines it: ticks and pips as a distance from your entry, percent as a share of the entry price, currency as the money for the whole bracket, and price as the actual level. Templates it cannot verify against a real fill — currency with several bracket rows, currency on a non-dollar instrument, pips on anything but futures — are shown with a ? and cannot be dragged. On forex, CFDs and crypto, where pip size varies, pips lines are not drawn at all.
ATM Risk Reward checks every internal surface it relies on when it loads. If an update has moved one, it switches to safety mode: the display keeps working, dragging is switched off, and one plain message tells you to check for an ATM Risk Reward update. Your orders are never affected by that; they stay exactly as NinjaTrader recorded them.
That is a refusal, and a refusal never changes your orders. The usual reasons: display-only mode is on, the entry was busy updating (try again in a second), or the drop landed on the wrong side of the entry — the preview says so while you hold it there. The full reason is always written to the NinjaScript Output window.
ATM Risk Reward has 61 settings in 11 groups, in the order of a trade: before the fill, during it, after the exit. The names in bold are the names you will see in the properties panel.
The moment an ATM entry rests, the stop loss and profit target are drawn where NinjaTrader will place them at the fill. Show stop line and Show target line switch each side, line and tag together; Show stop price marker and Show target price marker put the prices on the axis like NinjaTrader’s own, up to four levels per side. Each of the five ATM parameter types is read NinjaTrader’s way.
Allow dragging (on) lets you hold a stop or target line and drag it, or click its tag once to pick it up, exactly like NinjaTrader’s own orders. The drop is written into your ATM strategy in the template’s own units and read back, and only then does the line move; a refusal writes nothing. Keep stop and target when entry moves (on) holds both at their prices when you move a pending entry by hand; the dollars, ticks, points and R on their tags change instead, and it acts only after NinjaTrader confirms the move, never on a live position. Switch it off for NinjaTrader’s normal behavior, where they move with the entry. Follow entry while moving it draws the lines with the entry whenever a move is not kept.
Show R multiple puts the reward-to-risk ratio on the pending tags: 1.5R means the target is 1.5 times the stop distance. After the fill, Tag: show R multiple measures it from your actual fill with the stop and target as they are now, so a moved stop changes the number. When the trade closes, Show result in R scores the result against the risk you took at the start.
Show dollars, Show points (on, “4.25p”) and Show ticks (off) set what each pending order line’s tag reads, next to Show order (“1 Sell STP”, or “1 of 3 Sell STP” for a bracket row covering fewer contracts). Tag: show dollars, Tag: show points and Tag: show ticks make the same choice for the stat tags during the trade. Dollars per contract shows every dollar figure for one contract instead of the whole order.
Show entry box draws a small box on your position line with a clock: “In trade 05:12” with Entry box: show text labels on, a bare timer with it off. Entry box: show entry time and Entry box: show entry price add the time and your average fill. The stop, target and entry boxes each take their own colors, opacity, gap to NinjaTrader’s boxes and a Text only option; Box font matches NinjaTrader’s own tags by default.
The moment the position is flat, a table appears in the Closed trade table position corner for Show closed trade for (seconds) (30), with a countdown. Rows you switch on: the result in dollars and points, the result in R, exit by (stop, target or manual), entry and exit price and time, size and direction, duration, Show drawdown (how far it went against you) and Show best price reached.
No, and we won’t pretend it is. It shows you the stop loss and target you have already chosen, where it will land and what it risks, and lets you move it before the fill. Which trade to take, and where the stop belongs, is still yours.
Yes. It is a tool that changes real orders, so run it on your Sim account for a session or two, drag a few stops and targets, watch Chart Trader agree, and only then trade it live. That is how it was built and tested, for weeks, before it shipped.
No. NinjaTrader’s own Risk Reward drawing tool, and the add-ons built on the same idea, draw a planned trade: you sketch the entry, stop and target and read the ratio. ATM Risk Reward draws nothing you plan. It shows the real stop loss and profit target your ATM strategy will place, on the chart while the entry is still resting, and dragging a line moves the real order. If the planning tool is what you want, our guide to NinjaTrader risk reward tools covers the built-in one and the add-ons.
Not by itself. NinjaTrader draws the stop loss and profit target lines when the entry fills; while the entry is resting, the bracket lives only in the ATM strategy’s numbers. ATM Risk Reward reads those numbers and draws both lines where they will land, tagged with dollars, points and R (ticks if you want them), so you see the whole bracket before you are in the trade and can move it while it is still free to fix.
Yes, three ways. Before the fill, the R multiple on the tags is the target distance divided by the stop distance: 2.00R means the target is twice as far as the stop. During the trade, the tags measure R from your actual fill price with the stop and target as they are now, so a stop moved to breakeven changes the number. After the exit, the closed-trade table scores the result against the risk you took at the start, for example +1.80R.
Yes. Every stop and every target in the template is its own line with its own tag, and a bracket row that covers fewer contracts than the order reads “1 of 3 Sell STP” with the dollars for that row. The price markers on the axis show up to four levels per side. One limit: a Currency template with several bracket rows is shown with a ? and cannot be dragged, because its conversion is not fill-verified.
A closed-trade table. Shortly after the position goes flat it appears in the corner you chose and stays for Show closed trade for (seconds), 30 by default, with a countdown. The rows you switch on: the result in dollars, in points or ticks and in R, how the trade ended (stop, target, manual, or mixed when it closed in parts), entry and exit price and time, size and direction, duration, Show drawdown (how far it went against you) and Show best price reached.
Email support, answered by the traders who built it. If something looks wrong, switch on Diagnostics, trade briefly on Sim and send us the log it writes — it stays on your computer until you choose to send it. Bugs get fixed, and updates are free.
The moment an ATM entry is resting on the chart’s account and instrument, ATM Risk Reward reads its ATM strategy and draws the stop loss and target where NinjaTrader will put them at the fill. Each of the five parameter types is read NinjaTrader’s way: ticks and pips as a distance, percent as a share of the entry price, currency as the money for the whole bracket, price as the level itself.
A drop converts the price under the mouse into the template’s own units, writes it into the live ATM strategy, and reads the bracket back. The line moves only when the read-back matches. A refusal — wrong side of the entry, an order mid-update, an unverified template — snaps the line back and writes nothing.
Before the fill, R is the target distance over the stop distance. After it, every tag is measured from your actual fill price, and the closed-trade result is scored against the risk you started the trade with, not the stop you trailed it to.
| Type | Template says | NinjaTrader means | Stop lands at | Ticks | Risk, 1 lot | Draggable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ticks | 20 | 20 ticks below the entry | 7536.75 | 20 | $25.00 | yes |
| Pips | 20 | on futures a pip is a tick | 7536.75 | 20 | $25.00 | yes (futures) |
| Percent | 0.20 | 0.20% of 7541.75 = 15.08 pts, nearest tick | 7526.75 | 60 | $75.00 | yes |
| Currency | 50 | $50 for the whole bracket, ÷ contracts | 7531.75 | 40 | $50.00 | yes (single row) |
| Price | 7530.00 | the stop’s actual price level | 7530.00 | 47 | $58.75 | yes |
| Price | 10 | a stop AT price 10.00 — the exchange rejects it | no line | — | warning | fix it first |
Every conversion is written back in the template’s own units, so a drag on a Percent template writes a percent and a drag on a Currency template writes dollars; NinjaTrader then does exactly what it would have done had you typed the number. Currency with several bracket rows, Currency on a non-dollar instrument, and Pips on anything but futures are shown with a ? and never written: their conversions are not fill-verified. On forex, CFDs and crypto, where pip size varies, Pips lines are not drawn at all.
Every entry is placed, moved and canceled by you, in Chart Trader. ATM Risk Reward reads the account Chart Trader has selected and never picks one itself; it touches nothing but the stop and target values of your bracket, when you drag a line or move a pending entry. There is no order button in it, and there never will be one.
The line moves only after NinjaTrader confirms the value it holds. The order state is re-checked immediately before every single write, so a fill arriving during a drag closes the window as far as the platform allows. Nothing is ever written on the strength of where the mouse is.
After the fill our tags sit beside NinjaTrader’s own order boxes. Their width is measured in your chart’s font every frame, and the position row is read from where NinjaTrader actually draws it, so the spacing holds across charts, monitors, DPI and font sizes. The three gap settings are for taste, not calibration.
ATM Risk Reward relies on NinjaTrader surfaces that an update could change. Every one is verified at load; if any has moved, the display keeps working, dragging is switched off and one plain message asks you to check for an update. The failure is visible and it is safe: display on, dragging off.
This is the actual settings panel in NinjaTrader — it follows the life of a trade: before the fill, during, after — with plain-English names and no cryptic abbreviations. Every row in the table below is one of these. Line colors, thickness and style are not here on purpose: they follow your Chart Trader Lines settings, so the pending bracket looks exactly like the lines NinjaTrader draws at the fill.
| Setting | Default | Range |
|---|---|---|
| General | ||
| Allow dragging | On | On · Off |
| Follow entry while moving it | On | On · Off |
| Keep stop and target when entry moves | On | On · Off |
| Dollars per contract | Off | On · Off |
| Visuals On Chart | ||
| Show stop line | On | On · Off |
| Show target line | On | On · Off |
| Show stats after fill | On | On · Off |
| Show stop price marker | On | On · Off |
| Show target price marker | On | On · Off |
| Show entry box | On | On · Off |
| Box Text | ||
| Box font | Follow NinjaTrader font/size | Follow NinjaTrader font/size · Custom font/size |
| Custom font/size | Arial 11 | any font, size 6 – 72 |
| Show separator lines | Off | On · Off |
| Before Trade Info | ||
| Show order | On | On · Off |
| Show dollars | On | On · Off |
| Show points | On | On · Off |
| Show R multiple | On | On · Off |
| Show ticks | Off | On · Off |
| During Trade Info | ||
| Tag: show dollars | On | On · Off |
| Tag: show points | On | On · Off |
| Tag: show R multiple | On | On · Off |
| Tag: show ticks | Off | On · Off |
| Entry box: show entry time | Off | On · Off |
| Entry box: show entry price | Off | On · Off |
| Entry box: show text labels | On | On · Off |
| Closed Trade Box Info | ||
| Show trade result | On | On · Off |
| Show result in R | On | On · Off |
| Show exit by | On | On · Off |
| Show entry price | On | On · Off |
| Show exit price | On | On · Off |
| Show size and direction | On | On · Off |
| Show trade duration | On | On · Off |
| Show entry time | On | On · Off |
| Show exit time | On | On · Off |
| Show drawdown | On | On · Off |
| Show best price reached | On | On · Off |
| Show disappear countdown | On | On · Off |
| Closed Trade Box Visuals | ||
| Closed trade table position | Bottom right | Bottom right · Bottom left · Top right · Top left |
| Show closed trade for (seconds) | 30 | 0 – 600 |
| Box color | #0F0F12 at 90% | Any color |
| Text color | White | Any color |
| Box opacity (%) | 100 | 0 – 100 |
| Text font | Arial 16 bold | any font, size 8 – 40 |
| Stop Box Visuals | ||
| Use custom colors | Off | On · Off |
| Box color | Red | Any color |
| Text color | White | Any color |
| Box opacity (%) | 100 | 0 – 100 |
| Box gap (pixels) | 9 | 0 – 1000 |
| Text only | Off | On · Off |
| Target Box Visuals | ||
| Use custom colors | Off | On · Off |
| Box color | Lime Green | Any color |
| Text color | Black | Any color |
| Box opacity (%) | 100 | 0 – 100 |
| Box gap (pixels) | 9 | 0 – 1000 |
| Text only | Off | On · Off |
| Entry Box Visuals | ||
| Box color | #0F0F12 at 90% | Any color |
| Text color | White | Any color |
| Box opacity (%) | 100 | 0 – 100 |
| Box gap (pixels) | 9 | 0 – 1000 |
| Text only | Off | On · Off |
| Diagnostics | ||
| Enable diagnostics | Off | On · Off |
Ranges are printed only where the indicator enforces one. Colors accept any color.
There is no bar logic at all: ATM Risk Reward is driven by order events, so it costs the same on a tick chart as on a daily one and works on every bar type by construction. Text layouts and measured widths are cached until the font or the text changes; the draw pass runs only when something on screen can have changed, with an idle gate when nothing is happening. It keeps running with the chart tab in the background, because a resting order does not care which tab you are looking at. If your chart ever lags with ATM Risk Reward on, that is a bug and we want to hear about it.
A drop writes the stop or target of that order’s ATM strategy, in the units the template uses, and affects that order only: the template you saved is untouched. Currency is written as the money for the whole bracket, the way NinjaTrader reads it, so a two-lot order and a one-lot order at the same dollar risk land at different distances, exactly as they would from the template. One honest limit: a fill landing in the same instant as a write can, in principle, let one last change through; the order state is re-checked immediately before every write to make that window as small as the platform allows. Confirm the bracket in Chart Trader before the fill.
ATM Risk Reward makes no network connection of any kind. Nothing about you, your account, your orders or your trades is sent anywhere, and there is no telemetry. The optional diagnostics log, for support, is written to your own NinjaTrader folder; it contains your account name, order ids, prices and quantities, and it leaves your computer only if you choose to email it to us.
Fourteen days, every setting, no card. Run it on your Sim account first, as we did for weeks; if it stays, it is $99 once and yours to keep.
Not for you if you trade without ATM strategies or without Chart Trader: ATM Risk Reward reads both and does nothing on a chart without them. And it will never place an entry for you.
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